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[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The inflow of new members is rather encouraging: 2) Although 34 of the club subscriptions registered in 2019 are still trial subscriptions, the increase in the number of paid subscriptions is expected to exceed 100 by the end of the year. That's more than during 2017 and 2018 combined. 3) On the other hand, we regret the loss of some long-time…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The maintenance of the servers at Amazon Web Service (AWS) last Wednesday did not interfere with ongoing operations. 2) The cleanup of invisible content as well as oversized audio and video files from old Guest Accounts is completed. Approximately 1.25 million files were deleted. As a result, 3.5 Terabytes of S3 memory was released at AWS. The expected annual budget relief is 1,750 EUR . 3) The ima team has decided to pass some of…

February 20th, 2017 ...for a while for personal and family reasons. I will continue to look at the fine pics here and comment and upload every now and then, but I have to attend to more important things (believe me, there are some ;-)) more often in the coming months. Please keep in touch anyway, I have not left for good. Update April 8th: By now this has become a 24/7 job (and I am doing that with great devotion). The time I can spend here is very limited and I will utilize it mostly on…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) A few days ago, ipernity was exposed to a massive attack by Russian spam bots, who managed to overcome the Google Captcha authentication. Despite immediate countermeasures, some intruders managed to open accounts from which iper mails with links to pornographic content were sent to members. But at no time was any personal data or private contents compromised by this bot attack . Please delete any messages delivered to your personal address wi…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) During the last 6 months our website has been updated in many parts. In addition to all kinds of small bug fixes, the Breaking-News function and the freely adjustable background color have been introduced. The “Terms of Service” have been updated as well as “About ipernity” and “History”. The subscription page has been redesigned, the old FAQ replaced by a completely new version. The geo-localization was migrated to Open-Street-Map, the inte…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) In order to make the payment procedure simpler, Rob has further revised and simplified the subscription page . 2) The new FAQ is now also available online in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. The Dutch version is still under development. Use the Help & Contact link in the footer. 3) With the help of our IT service provider Qwellcode, we have succeeded in removing the dormant contents of long deleted accounts fr…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Our first online General Assembly was a success. As per the statutes, we make the minutes of that meeting available, and choose to make them public, and not restricted to club members. For archive purposes a complete sequence of screen captures of the comments in the discussion was saved in a PDF file which can only be opened by club members. However, the Welcome! discussion can be viewed by all. 2) The subscription page has b…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Seasonally fitting I welcome the visitors to our homepage from today with the spring pictures you provided. I thank you for your involvement! 2) As of today 38 Club members and 18 "free" users have already committed themselves financially for the reprogramming of ipernity. The sum of the paid contributions meanwhile amounts to 6,338 EUR (21% of the required starting capital). 3) The ima team has now defined a strategic guideline fo…

[DE] Software-Update-Strategie ./. [FR] Stratégie de mise à jour du logiciel ./. Today we would like to present you a concept for the increasingly urgent upgrading of ipernity to the state of the art. This is combined with the long announced transition offer to free users. It is valid from today for three months, i.e. until 15 May 2019. Dear members and friends of ipernity! Over the past 12 months, our community has spent around 22,000 EUR on maintaining and updating our w…

[EN] Software Update Strategy [FR] Stratégie de mise à jour du logiciel Wir möchten euch heute ein Konzept für die immer dringlicher werdende Anpassung von ipernity an den Stand der Technik vorstellen. Damit verbunden ist das längst angekündigte Überleitungsangebot an die freien Nutzer. Es gilt ab heute für drei Monate, also bis zum 15. Mai 2019. Liebe Mitglieder und Freunde von ipernity! In den vergangenen 12 Monaten hat unsere Gemeinschaft für die Instandhaltung un…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) To date, 213 users have renewed their subscriptions early. As a result, the liquidity of the community has increased by 8,797 EUR. Unfortunately, it is not about additional income, but only about temporal shifts. Due to the associated losses in the exchange rate adjustments, even 374 EUR less will come into the cash register. 2) As of today, the adjusted contributions to costs will come into force. We would like to point out again that the…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) In order to better inform incidental visitors from the web that ipernity is a non-commercial community and thus different from most other photo sharing platforms, we have changed the information text on the login page. 2) In addition, we have finally implemented the long-awaited donation button. We would appreciate it if you would make use of it, so that the various wishes for the further development of our website can be realized earli…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) The first pass to remove invisible content from the ipernity database has been completed. 14.6 TB of residual data (5.8 million files) from more than 10 years of operation were deleted. At the current exchange rate (USD/EUR = 1.13), this corresponds to an operating cost saving of EUR 6,944 per year from January 1, 2019. 2.2 TB of data from orphaned accounts that are harder to identify, are yet to be deleted. This can save a further EUR 1,037 i…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) After having weighed all requests for changes made by the Community with regard to the new ipernity tariff structure, today we present you a revised proposal. It is intended to make this structure official by November 30, 2018, after a final fine-tuning, if necessary, so that Flickr and Google+ users who are willing to move will be able to find out what to expect from ipernity. 2) We aim to implement the new tariff structure…

What makes Ipernity an online photo sharing community that works? Read my take on this important and timely subject.

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) After a well-deserved summer break, the ima team is back and would like to thank all users who have enriched ipernity with pictures and other contributions during the summer and holiday weeks. In addition, we would also like to thank those who have internally maintained operations and were available to help with any disruptions or questions. We would also like to thank our IT service provider Qwellcode, who quickly repaired another unforeseen s…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Meanwhile, SSL encryption has been extended to all ipernity login pages. Your registration and log-in processes are completely secure now. 2) Like other websites with login, ipernity offers the option "Stay connected". Under certain circumstances, however, this can be a safety gap. We therefore recommend that you always log out at the end of a session. This is especially necessary for a shared or public computer. 3) The previous logout pa…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Synchronization problems on our upload servers have affected ipernity's performance since May 8th. In cooperation with Christophe Ruelle, our IT support team succeeded in finding and correcting the cause of the error. 2) We thank you in this context for your patience and your trust, as well as for the many encouragement we received via Facebook: www.facebook.com/pg/ipernity/reviews/?ref=page_internal 3) At the same time the direct link…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! We are pleased to present to you today the financial report*) for the short fiscal year 2017**). Adjusted for the one-off expenses in connection with the takeover of the website (contract costs and settlement of debts of Ipernity S.A.), revenues exceeded expenses. The website is therefore economically viable. *) English version : www.ipernity.com/doc/team/46643796 **) 14.04.2017 - 31.12.2017 Based on the existing subscriptions, a reason…

[EN] Dear members and friends of ipernity! 1) Four months ago we initiated a discussion about how we would like to describe ipernity to outsiders. The corresponding newsflash ( www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4683682 ) is one of the most read ima news. In the meantime an updated version of "About ipernity" has been created from the draft of November 2017, taking into account your suggestions. 2) With the help of our new IT service provider, we have put this version online today. You can fin…